Whoa—was just thinking about Detroit (& Gary, IN) in particular, after reading an #article in the NY Review of #Books (1/19/23), where Colin Thubron asserts "A ruin arouses pleasure only long after the tragedy of its cause has faded." I'm prone to thinking much of the Rust Belt's (US's et al's) ruin-causes are still very much gnawing their way thru the social fabric—such a mixture of motives keeps us coming back to (contemporary) sites (& hence, so much good work about them).